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Super Stars
On Sept. 27 Mrs. Campbell came to Mrs. Blackburn’s class to talk about the 4-H club.
The class voted Julia McNulty for president, for vice president Blake Sutherland, for secretary Richmond Boggs and news reporter Abby Joseph. Next we voted what the club name would be. The four main people picked three names. They picked the Super Stars out of the three.

The challenge: classify members of the animal kingdom only by the shake of the head or pointing a finger.
Fourth graders selected one person to roam from table to table in search of a spider, snake, kangaroo, fish or another animal cutout that belongs in their assigned class system.
Jane Thompson, a 23-year veteran teacher in the Anderson County school system, said requiring students to work without talking keeps groups working together instead of one student overtaking the task.
“This way, everyone has to participate,” she said.

A male middle school student allegedly handed a note “threatening in nature” to a Saffell Street student riding the bus last Wednesday afternoon, resulting in an investigation by school administrators and the city police.
Police Chief Chris Atkins said last Thursday afternoon that a Saffell Street parent contacted police after an elementary student received a note from a middle school juvenile while riding the bus after school Oct. 2.

A Native American man is dying in a cabin on Avenstoke Road.
Director and producer Ray Arthur Wang describes his three-and-a-half-minute drama art piece as “an existential meditation on death and rebirth” with the primary filming taking place this week in a run-down cabin on Avenstoke Road in Lawrenceburg.
The “golden hour” of a setting autumn sun served as the inspiration for Wang’s short, he said, specifically the fall colors of Kentucky.

When Christmas neared last year, Rodney Goodlett wasn’t a happy man.
While speaking with his son Seth, a soldier stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., Goodlett learned that many of Seth’s fellow soldiers simply couldn’t afford a trip home for the holidays.
“Those soldiers fought for our country in Iraq and Afghanistan and shouldn’t have to spend Christmas alone on a base just because they don’t have the money to get home,” Goodlett said.

Church members trickle into the church and shake raindrops off umbrellas as Pastor Bobby Chesser conducts a short tour through Mount Pleasant Baptist on Sunday morning.
He points to the new drywall. New tile. New carpet.
The small country church’s sanctuary has also been completely rewired since a flash flood hit the church eight weeks ago, Chesser said.
The faint scent of new paint in the hallway gives away that volunteers worked the night before Sunday’s Homecoming service to finish small touch-ups.

The Anderson County Fiscal Court voted last Tuesday to spend $63,562 to purchase a set of scales for its recycling center and sell off bleachers and other items from its now defunct pulling track.
The scales, once installed, will allow the county to charge 5 cents per pound for items discarded at the recycling center, including contractor materials, household waste and yard debris.
Recyclables will still be accepted at no charge.

VFW and Auxiliary offer prize money in student essay contest
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4075 and the Ladies Auxiliary are sponsoring two contests for youth in the community, according to a press release.
The “Voice of Democracy Scholarship Competition” is open to students in grades 9-12. It is a three- to five-minute audio-essay on the subject “Why I’m Optimistic about our Nation’s Future.”

You sign your name in blood on the Internet.
Not literally, because that’d be gross and virtually impossible.
But no other metaphor, in my opinion, gives the right weight of gravitas when it comes to discussing the permanent nature of representing yourself on the Internet.
It’s an unconscious blood oath that you sign with the entire online world, that everyone you write and post will exist for infinity.